the international envoy on syria says there's still time for the u.n. peace plan to work out what the russian foreign minister sharing his often ism but urging called vietnam to pressure the opposition towards a cease fire. the british prime minister and his japanese counterpart agreed to expand collaboration on defense equipment in a move many see as mirroring washington's recent drive to boost its military presence in the asia pacific region. also russia and poland remember the victims of the tragic plane crash near smolensk that killed the polish president and most of the country's political elite two years ago. a man who's from thirty years on death

row for a crime many believe he did not commit america's most famous prisoner a movie aboud ramon talks exclusively to our t.v. and his first t.v. interview since his sentence was commuted to life behind bars. thanks for joining our team with me karen tara and international envoy on syria kofi annan non says it's too early to bury the u.n. peace plan in the country his comments came amid loud criticism in some western and arab states over the syrian government's commitment to the cease fire agreement archies peter all over has been following the developments. kofi annan said that said there was still time for his six point peace plan to be put in place he said that the the deadline of six am on the twelfth of april was still

a viable deadline he appealed to twofold sides both the opposition and the government forces to put down their weapons and to as he is to the point solve that peace plan that he was the the main architect hope despite criticism from the west kofi annan the former u.n. secretary general saying his plan was still very much alive i believe you said. to say that. kofi annan also went on to say that there was no real alternative to this peace plan that he put forward and he had heard from the syrian government that they were hearing some of those points we've heard that there's been a partial withdrawal of troops and heavy weapons from the. the residential areas of the city of the country that was included in that in that peace plan however kofi i'm going on to say that well the plan itself was certainly behind schedule

now over the past few days we've seen in an escalation in violence on both sides of the syrian conflict in early on tuesday we heard from russian foreign minister sergei lavrov who appealed to the syrian opposition as well as those who support them from abroad to make sure that they do it here to the peace plan as it's unusual we are calling on all groups and all the states who have influence on the political opposition and more importantly opposition to use its influence to reach a ceasefire between both sides of the conflict. will decide those voices of optimism there it seems that some countries have already written off kofi annan peace plan the united kingdom it issued a statement accusing the syrian government of those. issuing ludicrous eleven thousand demands on the on the peace plan also fronts have come out in referred to what the government is doing is a a new expression of flagrant of

a flagrant and unacceptable lie on behalf of the syrian government but it's also outrage in turkey where syrian troops fired on rebels fleeing into their sovereign territory now that prompted the united states does it justice turkey has a case to bring up before nato now one of the fundamental principles of the nato alliance is that it was a member comes under attack that all of the members of nato are the g.g. to defend past members now this all comes after syrian rebels have continued to use two key is a safe haven from which to launch attacks against syrian government troops syrian the syrian army people fleeing back across the border into turkey and the relative safety there mark almond visiting professor of international relations from del kant university in turkey says foreign skepticism over the syrian peace plays well into the rebels' hands the syrian rebels main strategy is to draw in printer and

show it because neither protests on the streets. has undermined the control room or the south. and so on who are trained used to are going to hire. you know you heard it or not in a board member of nato so if you can provoke. might work we have substantial turkish power much easier to meet to discuss the deployment of. the opening for the signal country if you see any country with a large army through the border in syria will be forgotten we do have international politics going on here essentially the nato countries france in particular are said they want to go so it's very important for and prestige but ultimately because friends of those who are we. and we'll have more analysis on the developments in and around syria throughout the day also the latest facts and opinions are available on our website or to dot com just a mouse click away. the u.k.

and japan have agreed to develop defense weapons together as britain seeks to boost its military presence in asia part of that cooperation could see a possible royal navy submarine deployment in the region the u.k. is joining the american buildup in asia pacific a strategy critics say is aimed at challenging beijing's growing influence archies of regret reports from london. to britain this is a highly lucrative opportunity first because it means big business when it comes to defense japan is an untapped market in britain is very keen to exploit that prime minister david cameron is unashamedly touting britain's military hardware on this trip taking with him over thirty executives from the u.k. aren't arms industry he's defended that move as being perfectly responsible and respectable despite the region being highly sensitive to any kind of military maneuvers whatsoever and tensions are particularly high at the moment with north korea planning a rocky launch for later this week but on top of that and more importantly for

britain is the chance to exert its influence with a physical presence in the region a region that traditionally and certainly geographically is china's domain because part of the agreement could mean the regular deployment of british submarines in the area these would be done to kill or submarines they can hold missiles with a range of up to two thousand kilometers and any such move would really mirror america's activity in the region because the u.s. is also very keen to exert its influence on the asia pacific region only recently deploying to hundred marines to australia a deployment heavily criticized in fact by china as being an incursion on its own turf in his own backyard and now britain is seeking to do the same at this time even closer to home this will undoubtedly increase the friction in what is already a highly sensitive region. and as the british and japanese prime ministers are meeting in tokyo with their war in north korea that it must scrap its satellite launch plants james corbet editor of the news website the corporate report says

although pyongyang's neighbors are worried about the plant satellite launch the situation is not worth a military build up. really threatening people in the region with this satellite launch and it is something that would seem to necessitate some sort of response but whether a military response is really necessary well that would only come into play if the north korea was really doing some sort of suicidal attack where they were actually going to use this as some sort of cover for launching a surprise attack on south korea or something ridiculous like that which would obviously be suicide for the regime so i couldn't imagine that that would be the case but it would be the only situation developing from this that i could think would involve some sort of massive military intervention or a need for military presence in the region the intertwining of the economies is an interesting feature of all of this that makes the the idea of oh great military confrontation i think less likely and to a certain extent perhaps this type of military aggression is cleaned up as a way of bilking more money out of the american taxpayers for example in order to

fund the american military machine and to justify a new type of battlefront that's come this hour on r t a poster boy for what many see as the and justice of the u.s. judicial system it says first interview since being taken off death row. for. national security. we do what we are all the time all shares his views with our plea on what has changed in about thirty or thirty years spent behind bars and has aspirations for the future. was he called israel or throttle world peace later in the program we report on the scandal surrounding a controversial. nobel prize winning author. it's exactly true years since the deadly plane crash in russia somalia answer region which claimed the lives of the polish president lech kaczynski together with most of the

country's political elite all know the six people on board were killed and poland's worst disaster in decades. brings us more on the commemorations being held both in warsaw and at the crash site. commemoration events are taking place at the site of the awful tragedy which happened two years ago in western russia near by the city of smolensk almost two hundred relatives of those who were killed in a plane crash are also here to lay flowers and wreaths at the site of the awful tragedy hundreds of thousands mourning the dead in poland just as it was happening two years ago i was there it was so in a crock of observing with my own eyes the grief and the emotions of the polish nation when this tragedy happened now certainly two years on a lot has changed the investigation separate investigations by both russia and poland have been held a blaming bad weather and actions of the flight crew for this tragic plane crash now still emotions are running high among some of the politicians in poland which are using this grief still to write to power now in my report which i had produced

a little earlier we can have a look at levens of the last two years and the current state of affairs in this regard it was destined to become a new era in turbulent ties between moscow and warsaw a high profile polish delegation was flying to western russia to commemorate twenty thousand officers killed by soviet troops at katyn village in one thousand nine hundred forty eight but it never reached its destination. the mind of the. plane descending his usual i heard a loud noise and it didn't pay attention to it i just thought it was thunder. the plane crash killed all ninety six passengers onboard including the president and first lady and most of the country's political elite separate investigations by both moscow and warsaw blamed bad weather and dubious decisions by the crew they were warned of heavy fog and low visibility works all to choose

a different runway but for whatever reason decided to land and you weigh. there was a very clear piece of guidance from traffic controllers that no conditions existed to lie and so it seems to me that the pilot in command should have taken. the sensible decision. to another field but of course he has the president on board. he has. had of the publisher who was on board. various of the big neutrals were going to a specific event in smolensk area. you know an awful lot of pressure was put on this guy's shoulders. such a huge loss was hard to take as hundreds of thousands grieved across poems for some accepting the truth was even harder despite lots of evidence and eye witness

accounts supporting the investigation some political forces in poland have been pointing the finger at moscow kaczynski twin brother you're also look believe the crash was orchestrated. poland is subject to a process of forced a measure concerning the smelliest going crash which increasingly looks like a terrorist act if there were explosions on board and if this catastrophe looks increasingly like assassination then this means there's a new development in international affairs. polish right wing parties try to use this millennium crash to score points in presidential and parliamentary complaints which followed the tragedy but their failure to win votes with anti russian rhetoric say experts proves warsaw's line wasn't in june with the thinking of the polish people and their new page in relations after all been turned despite it happening in the most tragic of ways the wreckage of the polish presidential plane is still here just eighteen kilometers on the side of the katyn massacre and in

many ways this is the reminder that this alliance plane crash was a tragedy inside another tragedy and while the scene massacre had scored the relations for many decades the events of two years ago have eventually brought countries closer in the common grief and in the it sounds to find the truth alexey research ski r.t. reporting from smolensk in western russia. on the timeline of the tragedy can be found online at r.t. dot com there's plenty more on our website including this year's annual time magazine poll of the most influential people is a particularly well guarded secret where the number one spot going to the cyber group anonymous alongside rumors of the poll itself was infiltrated by more details at our team dot com plus. and this could soon become the location for the new capital of russia or at least that's what the newly appointed governor of the

moscow region believes find out more about r t dowd column. there hasn't been anything good on t.v. . is to get the maximum political impact. before the source material is born hopes he journalism all this week. we wanted to present. something of. a mission. critical free structure free. range from three. three stooges free.

and free blog to video for your media project a free media gun to our t.v. dot com. thanks for joining our team with me karen sixteen minutes past the hour and once a death row inmate who. is now serving a life sentence convict. for shooting and killing a us police officer in one thousand nine hundred one for the last thirty years the former journalist and black panther has proclaimed his innocence and gained international support for his case along the way since up to jamal's conviction supporters have rallied behind him to seek justice claiming he didn't receive a fair trial r t is the first t.v. channel in the world to speak with a man since he was taken off death row exclusive interview in its entirety is coming later in the hour but first here's a preview from our reporter anastasiya to. preserve illusionary journalist and

activist an honorary citizen in over twenty cities with a street named after him in france movie i would you miles case is said to be one of the most debated in modern legal history accused of killing a police officer in the one nine hundred eighty s. lumia has spent almost thirty years on death row this january he was taken off death row and is now serving life behind bars without parole and for the first time since his transfer he spoke to us here at r t he gave us an exclusive interview and one of the first things i asked lumia was what is it like to be on death row for that long if you think about it. right. it's my life or death row. we. if not it back to haunt her countless of his supporters all over the world to me a good year mall has really come to represent a symbol of

a flawed justice system in the united states and in our interview we talked about whether nia thinks and has any faith left that the justice system in america can still be free and fair this is what he had to say there are more than three hundred thousand prisoners in california oh you could literally talk about beauty in oak park a review by a person who took to work with men women and children having been part of the black panther movement to me about jamal was actually watched by the f.b.i. since he was fourteen years old and i asked him when the laws such as the n.c.a.a. which allows officials to watch the teen and hold people in the united states whether we need things that big brother has officially shown his face in america the so-called patriot act has made everything that was. back in the one nine hundred sixty tonight fifty years or nineteen seventy's. by big gringo i hate

legalize the very thing. which criminal background that means look at your mail carrier your poems. miles take on occupy wall street's the us elections as well as his dreams and much more in our exclusive interview with him here at r.t. . hunter prize winner. convicted of controversial. after thirty years on death row. he just speaks to our team. the scandal surrounding a poem by german nobel prize winning author and which he did now says israeli policies shows no signs of dying down while some critics attack to go into across south or calling israel a threat to world peace tel aviv's reaction to the literary work also came under fire a travel ban imposed on the rider was dismissed by his supporters as disproportionate

response but some pointing out israel is simply diverting attention from the issues tackled in the palm israel that the government of these arrests always used to do this argument of whenever you see something that is anti israel you're supposed to be anti semitic this is the kind of argument that you use when you go in and do not want to debate the issue and the issue here is israel is a nuclear bomb it is not signatory to the nonproliferation treaty and it to fuse this controls by the international atomic energy agency exactly what it is demanding of iran which is a signatory to the n.p.t. treaty so actually what is happening here is indeed the issue is the fact that israel has a nuclear which is refusing to have control by international and should. as mass rallies against the earth already seem to have quelled in moscow activists

have headed south where the protest movement is gaining force hundreds have gathered in the city of holland in support of a former candidate for the mayor's post who is currently on hunger strike together with twenty other people shayna lost the election to the united russia party candidate more than a month ago but claimed the outcome was due to a number of violations the region's governor has reportedly admitted a reelection would be the best way out of the situation but the elected mayor insisted his victory last shots the prosecutor's office has confirmed their word by l.a. sions but stressed they were too insignificant to affect the overall result central election committee officials however evenly called on the defeated candidate to stop his hundred hunger strike and to go to court with his complaints. now to some other world news in brief for you this hour two explosions in afghanistan claimed at least twenty two lives and dozens of the country's relatively peaceful

western province of iraq a car bomb ripped through a government building just as local businessmen were gathering for a meeting with officials hours later in a more volatile us south area southern area three suicide attackers targeted a governor's office two of the bombers were shot dead but one managed to detonate explosives that killed a policeman. a new cycle and psychiatric test has found that mass killer on the same contradicting an earlier assessment a week before the thirty three year old norwegian goes on trial brigitte confessed to last year's twin attacks of planting a bomb in all slow which killed eight people and opening fire at a youth camp outside the capital leaving sixty nine today. europe's human rights court has ruled that five terror suspects can be extradited to the u.s. . from britain among them is radical islamist cleric of. three who is reportedly

linked with the nine hundred ninety eight hostage taking in yemen and setting up in a tourist terrorist training camp in oregon if extradited the suspects could face life long solitary confinement in top security u.s. presence. and before we move on to business coming up later today our team's cause report uncovers of vicious circle of fraud engulfing the global economy. that ended the day live masters is not going to go down into a mine and go mining for silver but i mean look let's be clear about something they have the vast resources of the market as you just expressed they have near zero percent interest rates and they have the backstop of the central bank and they use this to commit fraud and any time they make a mistake they put a gun to the head of government say either give us another bail out or going to kill the economy i'm saying put an end to that cycle if you take over the five hundred dollars and you take people's give them the chance to old real financial

independence as opposed to being the pendant the fed and the government and being a slave being in do did the declaration of independence you remember those words. all right time now to crossfire business desk where the european markets are now closed marina did they manage to escape the negative territory hi karen well no they did not but were pretty much expected that amounts because investors didn't have time to react to negative u.s. jobs data that came out on friday and of course investors in parts of asia europe and the united states were celebrating easter and so this was their operation and so let's take a look at the close in picture for europe as we can see both a pussy and their backs lost over two percent deepening their losses and more in the past two hours or trading and investors were not only reacting to negative data

in the u.s. but also in europe and they got spooked after spain central bank said that the country's banks are vulnerable and more capital this house and spain's foreign call sharply higher on the forms of larger. it's ok let's take a look at the picture your last after suffering their worst in a month on monday u.s. markets are extending their losses as well we can see that. over a half a percent and what we know there is that investors are cautious as well ahead of the report season on earnings and i'll tell you more about that next hour and now let's move on to currencies the euro is losing value against the e.u. was taller and that's because of increased concerns over the debt crisis in the euro zone naturally and then when it comes to the ruble it's the trading that has both the greenback and the euro moving on the markets here are now closed and the end of the trading session in both the r.t.s. and m i six seven point nine percent basically tracking overseas losses let's take

a look at the main movers then why sex most of the blue chips work makes we have gas which said over one and a half percent bucking the trend was retailer and magnets and we know that it's where as quarter earnings revenues are going up by thirty four percent and then we have. the a very small and that was shed over one percent and that came after reports that the russians that is considering selling at stake and the world's top titanium producer bought those reports since groove to be premature and that's because the commerce newspaper reported that that happened in russia technologies holds a forty five percent stake in the for which a lot of loans it's as if the government can help cover the interest payments it may not sell the whole bit however unless the secret from u.b.s. release even if the government doesn't provide cash in the state is not the best way to go. and even cities across the land.

be. exposed the gulf need to become whole open to the investors. when you would. raise some more you in the market and leave both the dead and gives us the sale of the stake this station looks more of this way because all the my little girls acknowledges the company you are good that you think so this will be just let me change your shareholders and i think girls else will be changed or i care about how business likes this hour of course have another hour date in about fifteen minutes thanks a lot for that out there right now in a few minutes i'll bring you the headlines and right after that stay tuned for a special interview. with.

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